Massive market drawdowns are the biggest opportunities

The lesson of 1998 for Tepper was that the massive market drawdowns are the biggest opportunities if you can stick it out. He (and his investors) learned to use these episodes to get even more aggressive. It was a tactic he would famously employ ten years later, during the even more difficult post-Lehman meltdown with Appaloosa down more than 20% from its high watermark.

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Berkshire Hathaway’s “A” shares had dropped in price from roughly $80,000 per share in June to $59,000 by the end of September. These same exact shares just hit a high of $229,000 this year. Buffett knew that while the price may have been changing for his company’s shares, the value that his companies were creating would not be permanently impaired. This allowed him to wait out the ’98 episode rather than reacting to it.

https://thereformedbroker.com/2015/08/13/how-two-of-historys-greatest-investors-deal-with-losses/